BLANK "Blanking" Controls the Visibility of Nodes and Elements

You can cut down what is displayed by "blanking" nodes and elements. (Unlike ENTITY display control blanking is selective: you can blank and unblank individual elements.)

Each node and element in your model has an internal blanking flag, which is initially set to off (i.e. the entity is visible). You can turn this flag on by blanking that entity, and in subsequent plots it will not be drawn until unblanked again.

Blanking is "per window"

From D3PLOT 14.0 onwards, blanking can be done on a per window basis. If the same model is viewed in multiple windows, different parts of the model can be visible in different windows. This was not the case in earlier versions of D3PLOT.

In the blank menu, there are window tabs, allowing users to set which windows the blank menu acts on.

The BLANK panel is used when you want to exercise detailed control over what is blanked. The alternative method of blanking, referred to as "quick pick" mode, which is more suitable for simple blanking is described in "QUICK PICK" Options.

In the quick pick menu, under BLANK there is a popup with the option to blank in All Windows, the Current Window, or All Active Windows. The default is All Windows. The image deomonstrates changing to the Current Window.

Likewise, there are similar popups for UNBLANK and ONLY . For UNBLANK rather than Current Window the option is Only Window [ ] with a text box to enter the desired window number. This allows the users to select items to unblank which are visible in another window.